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made by the Northern Expeditionary Armies and the revolu- tionary masses and the sound and firm footing secured by our Revolutionary Government have put the Imperialists in greater terror. The strike has lasted for over a year, and I have no need to mention that the workmen have suffered great hardship. But. taking the interest of our people and our revolution into con sideration, we cannot fail to support the strike to the end. More.. over, our National Government is one which represents the people in their interests, they have still more to exert themselves to support the strike until final victory is achieved. During the past several months, some tame dogs of the Imperialists charged the National Government with having no desire for a settlement, and created all sorts of rumours in order on the one hand to damage the National Government, which is a kind mother of the workmen, and on the other to injure the strikers, who are brave sons of the National Government. To our credit, however, after official negotiations had been held by the official delegations_sent by both parties-Eugene Ch'en, the Foreign Minister, Sung Tsz-man, the Financial Commissioner, and Ku Mang Yu. Director of the Propaganda Department under the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, sent by our National Government, and the Attorney-General, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the British Consul-General at Shameen, by the other party all false charges of insincerity brought against us pre- viously were withdrawn without any counter-argument on our part. The Sino-British negotiation has been held. What is the result? The British Imperialists not only have no sincere desire for a settlement, but have also taken the strike as a thing of the past, and proposed to negotiate on the anti-British boycott. And this is not all: they also proposed an industrial loan, that is to say, the Imperialists in Hongkong desired to give a loan to the National Government for the opening of Whampoa on condition that a loop-line is constructed to link up the Canton-Kowloon Railway and the Canton-Hankow Railway, and an English accountant and engineer are employed. Alas! the British Imperialists are indeed very clever. They know that when Whampoa has been laid out as a commercial port, Hongkong will not only lose its economic control over Kwong-tung, but will also be turned into a useless district. Therefore they do not grudge giving an industrial loan in the hope that they may carry out their intrigues of monopolising Whampoa and thus reducing it to a second Kowloon. Since such devilish plots are hatched by British Imperialism to entrap us Chinese, we cannot fathom their intrigues. Thus how can we Chinese accept their proposal at the Sino-British negotiations? It teaches us that the British Imperialists have no sincere desire for a settlement, and how can we then come to any settlement with them? Thus we must com- bine together and support our anti-Imperialist vanguards, the Canton-Hongkong strikers, and help them to gain the final vic- tory. All our fellow countrymen must aim at this. Until the Hongkong Imperialists have been brought to submission, the wrongs of the Shaki victims have been redressed, the tragedy of 30th May has been revenged and the unequal treaties have been
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cancelled, we must take a solemn oath to support the strike. Several days ago, the Governor of Hongkong, representative of the British Imperialists, in an open speech, libelled our Strike Commission and strikers as robbers and pirates, and our National Government as tools of robbers and pirates. He has not only insulted our Government and our strikers, but also the revolu- His hideous words are tionary masses of the whole of China. sufficient to show that the Imperialists will never treat us with How shall we sincerity, and can never come to terms with us. reply to him? We can reply to the Hongkong Imperialists thus: You are robbers. You are pirates. If you are not, how could you have got Hongkong?" Therefore we must combine together and put ourselves forward to strike the robbers and kill the pirates. In particular, we must retain all the con- cessions and overthrow British Imperialism. We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by the Imperialists, or hope that the British Imperialists will again send a delegation to negotiate with us, but we must develop the anti-British boycott throughout China. One more word. If the British Imperialists do not send any delegation again to negotiate with us with sincerity, we can Since only hold out to the end. The final victory will be ours. the objects of the strike are so momentous, we must support it to the end with unification. Victory in the strike means successful emancipation of our Chinese race. This responsibility must be shouldered by our revolutionary masses.
SIR,
ENCLOSURE 13 IN No. 32.
H.B.M. Consulate-General, Canton, 15th September, 1926.
In continuation of my letter of 10th instant, I have the honour to enclose herewith a copy of the Kue Min Hsin Wan of 6th September, in which there appears a further speech alleged to have been made by Mr. Sun Fo; I also enclose an English translation of an extract from this speech.
I shall be glad if you will inform me whether your colleague in the Canton Government has been correctly reported, and favour ne with a reply to my letter of 10th September at your earliest convenience.
I have, &c.,
J. F. BRENAN, 、
Acting Consul-General
The Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Canton.